St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
The Garden City's Associations to Assist
the Needy Very Numerous and
Very Active.
People of Wealth Who Do Not Belong to
These Organizations Not OOnsid-
cred Respectable.
The Deadly Weapon Used by News
boy Against His Teacher.
Society Lady.
Uncomfortable Experience of a
Young Lady on Getting Into "a
Folding Bed.
Special Correspondence of the Globe.

CHICAGO, March Sill we are nothing
else, we are loyal to the interests of our
own town in Chicago. We use goods OF
home manufacture whenever we can ana
take pride in doing it. We even use home
made heathens in carrying on our mission
airy work, and are just as well satisfied with
results as though we operated on cannlpal
product from the Pacific ocean. Some
towns might despair of meeting the demand
there is just now for heathenS. but not SO
this one. Every charitable and Informative
organization that advertiSes for material
finds it at hand, though probably needy
souls are quoted at better rate than they
were wears back, when Chicago mlllionaireS
were too busy acquiring their millions to
have time to look after their own souls
We have reached financial stage where
we can pay good. round sum
for few heathenS to ieforin.
and so we continue to organize our
charitable and corrective institutions, and
to add to the membership of those already
existing. Itwould be tedious to enumerate
al the associations of this sort operating i'll
the city OF wickedness. They are numer-
Gus enough and active enough to warrant
the belief that the day will come when nice.
unprecedented, boiled shirted. store clothed,
educated little newSboyS will sit winter
evenings in the steam-heated, brussels-car-
peted, electric-lghted libraries of their
charity homes, read the sad story of Oliver
Twist and find it hard to believe that such
dsreputable naughty boys as Oliver fell in
with ever really existed; and Spick-and-
span, clean-aproned babies will sit in rows
at their free kindergartens, look at old pic
lures of dirty little creatures, pumped in
sand bank. making mud pies, and will in
nocently ask their teachers what the mud
pies are. and if it didn't soil
the dirty little creatures hands to
make them. Nothing but a tender conSidS
Grafton for the needs of future missiOnarie
would seem to be able to ward off this COM
plete reform. Not TO belong to some char
liable association or other is hardly respect
able. and there are all kinds for all tastes.
There are the different kindergarten asso-
Citations to which one may contribute
money, time or talent, or all three. There
is the kitchen garden association, which
teaches children of the poor between the
ages of 10 and Is to cook and do general
houSework-a reform move which extends
in effect to the homes of the poor, institut-
ing something like order in them, and thus
preparing the way for godliness. During
the winter class of young ladies, repre-
SentativeS of
THE BEST FAMILIES IN TOWN,
has contributed to the support of this as
ISOLATION and lent to it the lustre of its
patronage, by receiving from it lessons on
the art of cooking. There is also class
of shop girls. filled to overlooking with pu-
pills. whose digestiOnS testify in healthier
looking faces to the good results of their
improved knowledge of cooking. Besides
t. - ,t,x-1 10 {,a ;,x;,
school for servants, where domestics, de-
ficient in any particular branch. are made
perfect for 10 cents. 1t is the design of
the management to develop this school I'M
til it has established regular course that.
completed shall entitle the pupil to
diploma. Related by marriage. or in some
equally distant manner, to the kitchen gar
den is the creche. 1t is located we'll down
on South Clark street, easy of access to its
patrons. Its object is to take care of the
children of working women while the
mothers are out at work. 1t charges 10
cents day for the first child and cents
after that for each child of ore FAM
lily left in its care. The children
on arriving ut the crecl1e are bathed dressed
in clean Clothes and when they are of
proper age are given instructions in the ele-
mentary branches of knowledge. They are
fed with substantial food. and, when neces-
sary, are furnished with medical attention.
On the North side is the WATTS mission one
of the most extensive charities in the city.
1t embraces kindergarten. kitchen garden,
Serving school, school for manual training,
and Sunday school having an enrolled
membership of f. 900. Many of these waits
are as interesting and quick-wltted as they
haye been heretofore neglected. 1t is the
custom of the Sunday teachers to exact
from their pupils an explanation of any alb
sence that may occur. A week ago Sunday
one of the teachers herself failed to put in
an appearance, and, on fesuming her place
the next week, was met with the chorused
inquiry, Where was you last Sunday?"
Expecting to receive some express
sion of sympathy in return, she
answered, solemnly, my dears, l
was illn' Straightway little. back-eyed,
shock-headed, clarion voiced newsboy
cried out Yes. where was you the
night afore? You was at reception. l
seed yer name in the paper" 1t is for
this that we educate the poor to have
them drive us into a corner with weapons
our charity has armed them with. Equally
surprising to his teacher was the reply an
other small-siZed newsreader gave to the
question. What is a prophet" The class
had been instructed in the meaning of the
word the Sunday previous; but no one
seemed to remember what he had been
taught till suddenly one popped up and
said eagerly: Il know, teacher; it's fell
Ter what runs errands for God" The Chi
.cago newSboy has means to accomplish
all ends. There is a journal called the
NewSboys' Appeal, published here in the
interests of the Newsboys' home. The
youngsters selected to offer it for sale are
doubtless instructed to look as
NEEDY AND APPEALING
as they can, and | never saw anything in
the shape of hungry, yearning look to
equal theirs, Why, when they come before
me and hold out that paper and fix their ad-
Unstable expression of want upon me, IN
voluntarily quarter goes out to them, and
l magnanimously bid them never mind the
change" though | know at the time | shall
have to walk down town Until l have made
up for it. A strong, determined charity is
the Woman's Protective association. Grim
inal cases, in which women are the victims
and men too often go scot free, are doggedly
fought by this association until justice gives
the devil in each instance his due. 1t has
lately established home where, for sum
next to nothing, women and girls seeking
employment are sheltered until work is OBJ
tanned. 1t is lucky thing so many charit-
able organizations do exist in Chi
cago. If they did not, I'd like to
know what our Histrionic club
and other dramatic and musical
societies would have to benefit by their
performances. Of course there is always
the public to work for. But the public has
such an unfortunate lack of ability to know
when it is being benefited that these differ
ent societies would be likely to die off for
want Of an object to live for. AS it is,
they no sooner recover from one effort than
the needs of the heather as represented by